Slide fastener attachments



Sept. 7, 1954 s. GLASS 2,588,138

SLIDE FASTENER ATTACHMENTS Filed Jan. 16, 1950 SIDNEY GLASS JNVENTOR.

ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 7, l954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention has to do with improvements in fastener assemblies of theinterlocking segmental slide fastener type, and is directed primarily tothe provision of an auxiliary fastening means associated with the usualslide part and serving various advantageous functions with respect notonly to the slide fastener, but also the garment parts secured togetherthereby.

One of my primary objects is to lessen the likelihood of the slidefastener inadvertently being left in open condition by the associationwith the movable slide of a fastener means so utilized that the normaltendency of the wearer always will be to bring the slide to fully closedposition when the garment parts should be closed together. Further, thetendency of the wearer thenwill be to so secure the auxiliary fasteningmeans as to serve the dual functions of holding the slide againstunintentional opening movement from closed position, and of interlockingthe garment parts independently of the slide fastener proper.

While it is contemplated that the invention may be generally applicablefor a wide variety of uses for which slide fasteners are employed, ithas particular adaptability in conjunction with slide fasteners for menstrousers. Whereas, using the conventional slide fastener, the wearer maysometimes neglect to fully close it, or the fastener may graduallyloosen or open even if closed, the invention virtually assures that thewearer will always bring the slide fully closed and. secure theauxiliary fastener, following which the trousers are fully secured atthe waistline and the slide is locked against release.

structurally, the invention contemplates attaching to the fastener slideand to the portions of the garment to be fastened together, two pairs ofauxiliary fastener sections, preferably in the form of hooks andeyelets, one pair being in effect carried by the slide and the otherpair by the garment sections. Preferably, though typically, I formintegrally with a slide-carried element a pair of hooks receivablewithin a pair of eyelets secured separately to the garment parts inpositions so that they may interlock with the hooks, and the garmentparts then become fastened together through the slide-carried element,when the slide is fully closed.

The invention has various additional features trative embodiments, willbe more fully understood by the following detailed description of theaccompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a general View showing the fastener assembly applied to agarment, a portion of the latter being broken away to reveal thefastener parts;

Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 22 of Fig. 1;

Figs. 3 and 4 are top and side views, respectively, of the slide-carriedlocking element;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a variational form ofthe invention;

Figs. 6 and 7 are side and edge views, respectively, of the lockingelement shown in Fig. 5;

Figs. 8 and 9 are side and edge views, respectively, of one of the hookfastener sections of Fig. 5; and r Fig. 10 is a view illustrating thesecond hook section.

Referring first to the general showing of Fig. l, I have illustrated atl0 and H the overlapping portions of a garment, for example afragmentary waistline section on mens trousers at the front overlap.Thus portion I0 is shown to overlap the under portion H, and the latterto carry a flap [2 having a button-hole l3 for reception of button I4applied to section [0. It is understood that the presence or absence ofsuch incidental fastening means as the buttonable flap is in no respectlimitative on the invention.

The garment portions It and II are securable together by slide fastenerIS, the interlocking and separable sections of which are secured in theusual manner respectively to the two overlapping fasteners of thegarment section. And opening and closing of the fastener 15 isaccomplished by the usual slide it. As previously indicated, theinvention is concerned primarily with the provision in conjunction withthe slide fastener [6, of an auxiliary interlocking device generallyindicated at IS, the parts of which are applied to the slide fastenerand garment portions so that in effect the latter are fastened togetherthrough the slide and, the slide, in turn, is releasably secured in theclosed position illustrated.

The slide [6 carries a locking element I9 which conveniently may havethe form of a flat plate, the turned ends 20 of which are pivotallyreceived within portion 2| of the slide fastener. The locking element [9is shaped to provide a pair of hooks 20 and 2! formed integrally withbeing terminally secured, as by sewing through the openings 24, toortion ll of the garment. Eyelet 22 is similarly secured to section ofthe garment in the relation to eyelet 23 shown in Fig. 2. Incidentally,this View exaggerates the spacing of the garment portions in order moreclearly to illustrate the fastener parts. It is found desirable tostiffen the edge or flap portion of the garment section [0 at thelocation of the assembly [8, and for this purpose I provide one or apair of stifieners extending in alinement with but transversely of theaxis of the slide fastener I5. Such stiffeners conveniently may beformed as projections 25 integral with the eyelet 22 and receivedbetween plies Illa and lflb of the garment section [0, as shown in Fig.2. If desired, the terminals 23a of eyelets 23 may similarly be set intothe garment section ll between plies lie and llb thereof.

Assuming initially the garment sections [0 and I l to be unsecured bythe fastener 15, upon raising the slide IE to the Fig. 1 position, thegarment portions become secured together throughout the extent of theslide fastener. The top portions of the garment sections then arequickly and easily secured together simply by holding the lockingelement :9 in upright position and thrusting the hooks 22 and 23respectively within the eyelets 20 and 2|. The garment sections (forexample at a trousers waist band) thus are held together independentlyof the slide fastener proper, or any other attaching means, and theslide [6 is effectively locked against inadvertent release for movementtoward open position.

The form of the invention illustrated in Figs. to is generally similarto the described embodiment, except that here the positions of theeyelets and hooks are reversed with respect to their placement on thelocking element and garment sections. Locking element 28 carries a pairof transversely offset eyelets 29 and 38 projecting from opposite sidesof the plate. Portion [0 of the garment carries a fastener section 3 I,see Figs. 8 and 9 having an integrally formed out-turned hook 32 and apair of stifiener projections 33 corresponding in purpose to thepreviously described stifieners 25. Garment portion I I carries a secondfastener section 34 comprising an integrally formed hook 35 and a baseportion 36 attachable to the garment.

Using the form of Figs. 5 to 10, when the slide [6 is moved up to closedposition, hook 32 may be thrust into eyelet 50 and hook 235 into eyelet29 to interlock the garment sections and secure the slide fasteneragainst release.

I claim:

1. The combination comprising a garment having separable portionsadapted to be connected together in engaged overlapping relation, anelongated slide fastener attached to said portions and including a slidepart movable longitudinally of the fastener between open and closedpositions, first fastener sections independent of said slide fastenerattached respectively to the engaged overlapping surfaces of saidportions of the garment, second fastener sections carried by said firstslide part, said first fastener sections being adjacent the closedposition of the slide part and being releasably engageable with saidsecond fastener section to secure together said portions of the garmentand prevent movement of said slide part from closed position, one ofsaid pair of sections being in the form of eyelets and the other pairbeing in the form of oppositely turned hooks disposed at opposite sidesof the slide part when engaged with said eyelets.

2. The combination comprising a garment having separable portionsadapted to be connected together in engaged overlapping relation, anelongated slide fastener attached to said portions and including a slidepart movable longitudinally of the fastener between open and closedpositions, said slide part including a swingable element, eyeletsattached respectively to the engaged overlapping surfaces of saidportions of the garment, integral hooks carried by and projecting fromopposite sides of said element for reception in its closed position insaid eyelets to secure together said portions of the garment and preventmovement of said slide part from closed position.

3. The combination comprising a garment having separable portionsadapted to be connected together in engaged overlapping relation, anelongated slide fastener attached to said portions and including a slidepart movable longitudinally of the fastener between open and closedpositions, said slide part including a swingable single piece element,eyelets attached respectively to the engaged overlapping surfaces ofsaid portions of the garment, integral hooks carried by and projectingfrom opposite sides of said element for reception at the closed positionof said slide part in said eyelets to secure together said portions ofthe garment and prevent movement of said slide part from closedposition, and a garment stiffener formed integrally with one of saideyelets and extending therefrom transversely of the slide fastener axis.

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